Posted on May 30, 2020
Policing in the US is not about enforcing law. It’s about enforcing white supremacy | Paul Butler...
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On Friday the CNN journalist Omar Jimenez was arrested on live television as he covered protests of police brutality in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jimenez identifies as African American and Hispanic, and when the cops confronted him, he did just what minority parents tell their kids to do. Jimenez cooperated; he was respectful, deferential even. He said “we can move back to where you like … We are getting out of your way … Wherever you want us, we will go.”
Policing in the US is not about enforcing law. It’s about enforcing white supremacy | Paul Butler...
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I don't believe most officers are about enforcing "white supremacy" but it doesn't take more than a few to make everyone look bad. Happens to us in the military as well...remember Tailhook? You would think every officer in the Navy had reprehensible behavior...I am not excusing any of it. I also think we ask police to enforce laws that they should not... arresting someone for selling individual cigarettes on the street...crime is essentially not paying tax. Why is that an arrestable offense?
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LTC David Brown
Activist critical of police undergoes use of force scenarios
We've seen protests all across the country after police officers have been accused of shooting people who aren't armed. Jarrett Maupin, a vocal critic of pol...
I agree with you. Police actually save far more lives than they take. NPR featured a study that showed no prejudice in police shootings. I have shown a video where a news reporter and a pastor who was critical of p9ice went through a training program involving fire arms. The minister ended up dead in scenario and killed an unarmed man in another. Being a police officer is tough and they have all my respect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfi3Ndh3n-g
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SGT Lou Meza
You are correct since we have police officers of every race in the US . I cannot see an Hispanic Officer enforcing white supremacy nor any other race or nationality doing so . There would be nothing for them to gain but everything to lose . All it takes is one or two here and there to make everyone look bad . The one in Minneapolis is one of those that is making the rest of police officers look bad . And don’t get me wrong but there are also some bad apples in Hispanic, Black and other races as well . So I would have to disagree with that about enforcing white supremacy.
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